The A12 is partially closed this lunchtime after a delivery van collided with the central reservation of the road.

There is heavy traffic and delays heading northbound after the accident between junction 25 for Marks Tey and junction 26 for Eight Ash Green and the Tollgate Interchange this afternoon (Sunday, February 18).

Photos sent in by witnesses show police blocking off two lanes of the A12 northbound carriageway, with an ambulance also on the scene after a green delivery van appears to have gone off the carriageway and smashed into the barriers on the central reservation.